Improvement in hohse-shoes



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HENRY s. Hernan,l or MARBLE HALL, PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No. 86,014, dated January 19, 1869.

IIMPROVEMEN T IN ORSBSHOES.

The Schedule referred to in these Lettere Patent and making parirof the same. *4M- To all 'whom it' 'may concern Be it known that I, HENRY S. HITNER, of Marble Hall, in the county of Montgomery, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Horse-Shoes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact'description of the same, suioient to enable others skilled in the art to which the invention appertains, to fully understand and use it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and in which- Figures l and 2 are sections through line :e a: of g. 3.

Figure 3 is a perspectiveA view.

This invention relates to that class of horse-shoes in which a plain curved plate, without calks, is fastened to the hooi, and to this plate the shoe, bearing either sharp or dull calks, is attached by means of screws.

This improvement relates to a new device for strengthening the shoe, and attachingit to the curved plate more firmly than has been done heretofore.

In the drawings, A is the curved plate, of the general form of a horse-shoe without calks, and provided with the holes a a, through which it is nailed to the animals hooi', and two or more screw-holes, c c, through which the screws pass that fasten the shoe to the plate.

It may also be providedwith a counter-sink, at d, to receive the lip or liange, hereinafter described.

B is the shoe, provided with sharp calks, as seen in fig. 1, or dull ones, as shown in iig. 2, for use in winter or summer, respectively, and Icapable Iof being firmly and securely fastened to the plate A, by means ofi screws c e, and a bent-up lip, ange, or hook, D, which slips upon the plate A at the counter-sink, as shown in figs'. l and 2.

The improvement which I desire to secure, consists essentially in the employment of the bent-up lip D, which clamps the shoe and the plate firmly together at their front end, and saves the necessity for screws at that point. The iin being a part of the shoe, is-

natnrally driven more firmly upon the plate bythe action of the horses feet, there being very little tendg ency, under any circumstances, to force the shoe back oli" the plate. The screws e e are therefore relieved of much of the strain to which they would otherwise be subjected.

Thewhole forms a neat, lightand durable horseshoe, which can be easily and readily changed, so as to have sharp or dull calks, at pleasure, by removing the lower plate, and substituting foi-fit another, such as may be needed. t

I am aware that it is not -new to attach a false shoe, provided with calks, to the ordinary shoe, by means of clips; neither is it new to attach such shoe by means of screws alone; but both of these ways are objectionable-the former, in that the shoe which is jointed at the toe requires a screw, not only to spread the false shoe apart at the heel, so that the clips will take hold.

upon the shoe nailed` to the auimals hoof, but also te cause the clips to retain such hold upon the shoe; and the latter in .that all the strain being upon the screws, they are continually working loose, and thus liable to break olf. I therefore wish it distinctly understood that I lay no claim to either of the above-described modes of fastening; but having fully described my invention,

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isp The horse-shoe herein-described, consisting of the two parts, A and B, when the same are made each of a solid piece of metal, and fastened together at the heel by the screws e e, and at the toe by the bent clip or iauge D, fitting a counter-sink in the upper surface ofthe part A, substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

HENRY S. HITNER. Witnesses:

S.. O. KEMON, JAMES H. GRIDLEY. 

